International: You're a Mother?

In Warsaw last week, a Polish woman stopped before a students' dormitory to ask what all the flags and crowds were about. A fierce young Greek confronted her. "What side are you on?" he demanded. "What do you mean?" she asked.

"Well, are you for Markos or for Athens?"

"Oh—I'm a mother. I look after my child and don't pay much attention to those things."

"You're a mother? Then you are against war?"

"Certainly."

"Ah—then you are with us! Long live Markos!"

All week long Warsaw was treated to a gigantic dose of such dialectics. It was the annual conference of the Communist-dominated World Federation of Democratic...

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